Resilient padding for laundry machinery



Nov. 29, 1932. w. JACK RESILIENT PADDING FOR LAUNDRY MACHINERY Filed May 10, 1952 FIQZ.

Patented Nov. 29, 1932 NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WILLIAM JACK, OF CLYDEBANK, SCOTLAND, ASSIGNORI OF NINE-TENTHS TO 1). & J. TULLIS, LIMITED, OF CLYDEBANK, SCOTLAND, A COMPANY OF GREAT BRITAIN RESILIENT PADDING FOR LAUNDRY MACHINERY Application filed May 10, 1932, Serial No. 610,334, and in Great Britain October 30, 1931.

This invention relates to resilient padding for laundry ironing and pressing machinery of the type including a plurality of helical springs mounted on a carrier constituted, for

example, as a perforated or an imperforated strip.

The primary object of the present invention is to provide an improved form of mounting for such springs.

With this object in view, the invention provides a padding unit for laundry machinery comprising a carrier constituted as a strip and a plurality of springs wound in pairs and threaded on the strip with their connecting convolutions disposed below the strip and their adjoining convolutions located above the strip.

In the drawing which illustrates a padding unit constructed in accordance with the invention Fig. 1 is a fragmentary side elevation, Fig. 2 a fragmentary inverted plan and Fig. 3 an end elevation.

The padding unit shown comprises a carrier constituted as a metallic strip 1 and a plurality of springs 2, 3 wound in pairs and adapted to be threaded on the strip 1 with their connecting convolutions at disposed below the strip 1 and the adjoining convolutions 5 located above the strip 1.

In the application of the padding unit to a cylinder the strip is either flexible or deformable and is wound round the cylinder either continuously or in sections.

I claim.

1. A padding unit for laundry ironing and pressing machinery comprising, in combination, a carrier constituted as a flexible strip and a plurality of springs wound in pairs and threaded on said strip with their connecting convolutions disposed below said strip and the adjoining convolutions located above said strip.

2. A padding unit for laundry ironing and pressing machinery comprising, in combination, a carrier constituted as a deformable WILLIAM J ACK. 

